A hearing will be held today for one of the three defendants accused of murdering a Cherryhill Township couple in October.
18-year-old Isaiah Scott will have a hearing today on a request to transfer his case from Criminal Court to Juvenile Court. Scott is one of three defendants charged with the deaths of Timothy Gardner and Jacquelyn Brink, who were beaten to death at their apartment in Cherryhill Township. While Nathan Price and Justin Stevenson, who were 18 and 19 at the time of the killings, are actually accused of the beatings, an affidavit of probable cause stated that Scott, who was 17 at the time of the crime, stood by and actually ran away from the scene. He still faces two counts of criminal homicide and a single count of conspiracy to robbery. Scott was transferred to the Westmoreland County Regional Youth Services Center in early March.
As Scott was still a juvenile at the time of the killings, he will not face the death penalty. Price and Stevenson are being held at the Indiana County Jail, and will have a criminal call hearing October 6th.
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A motions hearing is set today for a Beaver County man who was charged with robbery, aggravated assault and theft.
Mason Jackson is scheduled to have an Omnibus Pretrial Motions hearing today in front of Judge Thomas Bianco. He is charged with the robbery and beating of two men on South 8th Street in Indiana in October of 2015. The victims, Vincent Ligenfelter and Michael Wilber, said that Jackson, 20-year-old Spencer Bacon and an unidentified third suspect pistol-whipped them and punched them repeatedly. When police showed the victims social media photos showing Bacon with a group of other people, they also identified Jackson. Jackson’s attorney has filed a motion to suppress the identification. Bacon is serving one to three years in State Prison.
Another hearing being held today will concern a man charged with drug-related crimes for an incident in April of 2016. 25-yearold Terrance Northington of Pittsburgh faces charges of manufacture or possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, conspiracy to the same offense, possession of drug paraphernalia and simple drug possession. The charges are connected with a drug raid performed by police in April of 2016 in Rossiter. The raid netted three grams of crack cocaine, 166 stamp bags of heroin, and several items of drug paraphernalia. The hearing today is to suppress evidence connected with this case. One of the co-defendants, Shannon Dobson of Rossiter, pleaded guilty to a single charge of conspiracy to manufacture or possess with intent to deliver in January, and was sentenced in February.
